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Effective Bounds for the Decay of Schr\"odinger Eigenfunctions and Agmon bubbles

Analysis of PDEs 2021-10-05 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP Spectral Theory

Abstract

We study solutions of Δu+Vu=λu-\Delta u + V u = \lambda u on Rn\mathbb{R}^n. Such solutions localize in the `allowed' region {xRn:V(x)λ}\left\{x \in \mathbb{R}^n: V(x) \leq \lambda\right\} and decay exponentially in the `forbidden' region {xRn:V(x)>λ}\left\{x \in \mathbb{R}^n: V(x) > \lambda\right\}. One way of making this precise is Agmon's inequality implying decay estimates in terms of the Agmon metric. We prove a complementary decay estimate in terms of harmonic measure which can improve on Agmon's estimate, connect the Agmon metric to decay of harmonic measure and prove a sharp pointwise Agmon estimate.

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@article{arxiv.2110.01163,
  title  = {Effective Bounds for the Decay of Schr\"odinger Eigenfunctions and Agmon bubbles},
  author = {Stefan Steinerberger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.01163},
  year   = {2021}
}